Sentences with phrase «equatorial waters»
"Equatorial waters" refers to the warm, tropical regions near the Earth's equator where the temperature of the ocean is higher compared to other areas. These waters are known for their diverse marine life and are often associated with popular tourist destinations due to their vibrant coral reefs. Full definition
The amount of strikes on your line may seem like something supernatural is going on, but the teeming waters off the Yucatan Peninsula really does host scores of marlin as they migrate northward from equatorial waters from March through August.
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La Niña conditions caused by relatively cool equatorial waters in the eastern Pacific can cause droughts in South America, heavy rainfall in Southeast Asia and can intensify Atlantic hurricane seasons.
Studies of the changing characteristics of the California Undercurrent conclude all its «changes are consistent with an increasing influence of Pacific equatorial waters» over the past decades.
The first Pacific test started on 5 September 2017, when two saildrones, 1005 and 1006, set out from San Francisco, California, for equatorial waters.
It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).
Spawned by the Sea Atlantic hurricanes often develop over equatorial waters off the African coast, where colliding winds generate thunderstorms fueled by warm, humid air.
With warmer equatorial waters reducing plankton abundance and spurring many fish species, notably bigeye and skipjack tuna, to migrate toward the poles, the waters around Wake and Johnston, 1600 kilometers north of the equator, «are precisely where you want to have a protected area,» says Robert Richmond of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
Situated on Oia's famous cliffs, the stylish Mystique features dazzling views of clear blue equatorial waters, the volcano, and the Aegean Caldera.
Relax, read a book, play in the warm, inviting equatorial waters, this area is beautiful — enjoy it!
The deep - water channels between Cozumel Island and Riviera Maya draw a legion of hungry pelagic species migrating northward from equatorial waters every spring and summer.
19 El Nino Southern Oscillation: ENSO Occurs: three to seven years The warm countercurrents in the Pacific become unusually strong and replace normally cold offshore waters with warm equatorial waters.
A gift of dried whale meat — and some clever genetic sleuthing across almost 16,000 kilometers of equatorial waters — has helped scientists identify a long - forgotten animal as a new species of beaked whale.
The researchers have discovered that Isabela — a female animal named after the lead author's daughter and a major Galapagos Island of the same name — has traveled at least once between Chile's Gulf of Corcovado and the equatorial waters of the Galapagos Islands, a location more than 5,000 kilometers away and now thought to be a possible blue whale breeding ground.
As hot water is discharged from the equatorial waters during El Niño, deeper cooler water can rise to the surface, creating the cold patch that defines La Niña.
Its weirdness was likely maintained by warm equatorial waters and barriers to migration by other marine mammals posed by the newly formed Isthmus of Panama, and the still - closed Bering Strait.
If not, then cheer yourself up with a dip into some warm equatorial waters.
Not only were the equatorial waters much colder last year, but the regions away from the equator were also cooler.
The warm countercurrents in the Pacific become unusually strong and replace normally cold offshore waters with warm equatorial waters.
They concluded the influx of freshwater from melting ice sheets in modern times would essentially shut down the ocean's circulation, causing cool water to stay in the Earth's polar regions and equatorial water to warm up even faster.
From polar areas to equatorial waters, the whales ingested pollutants that may have been produced by humans thousands of miles away, the researchers said.
On the other hand, the warm tropical seas would evaporate moisture, which would eventually come down as rain and snow farther north; this would leave the equatorial waters more salty and therefore denser.